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Constituent Update - September 27, 2013

HIKE Pre-scenario Available Online

FSIS has made available the Humane Interactive Knowledge Exchange (HIKE) scenario, “A Corrective Action Stun” DH 02-13 for comment through September 2013. The HIKE addresses the actions taken by FSIS for a failed stunning attempt by the establishment who immediately performs a corrective action stun.

The reason for posting this HIKE for comment is to provide inspection personnel, industry, consumers and others the opportunity to review and comment on the HIKE prior to its posting as a final document.

The FSIS Chemistry Laboratory Guidebook method, “Determination of Metals by ICP-MS and ICP-OES (Optical Emission Spectrometry),” has been updated. This method has been extended to several additional metals. With this update, the following 17 metals can be assessed in products of interest: aluminum, barium, boron, cadmium, chromium, cobalt, copper, iron, lead, manganese, molybdenum, nickel, selenium, strontium, thallium, vanadium and zinc. This method will be posted to the FSIS Chemistry Laboratory Guidebook once finalized. The agency intends to begin using this method after October 1, 2013.

The FSIS laboratory system has validated a single enrichment broth for the analysis of Salmonella, Escherichiacoli (E. coli) O157 and select Shiga toxin-producing E. coli strains (STEC) in raw beef/veal products and carcass and environmental sponge samples. Additional method improvements include use of a single plating medium and new screen tests for the E. coli analyses.

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